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How many volunteers were present at this meeting? : |
A number of 2295 participants from 87 countries came to the congress |
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Which countries were presented in congress? : |
82.7% were from European Countries and 17.3% were from rest of the world |
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were any organizations represented in the meeting? : |
Yes |
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If yes, please write the names of the organization in the box : |
EAPC (European Association for Palliative Care), APHN(Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network), IAHPC (International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care) |
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What were the response to your talking points? were specific questions or concerns raised? : |
They asked me about the situation palliative care including hospital based palliative care, community care services and hospices. And also if there is any palliative care team existed here. |
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If you met with staff members, please list their full name & positions. : |
Dr Ednin Hamzah/Hon Secretary APHN
Associate Professor Meera Agar/Discipline of palliative and supportive services Flinders University,
Adelaide, Australia
Dr. Ghauri Aggarwal/Head of Department | Palliative CareConcord Hospital, Hospital Road, Concord, Australia
Liliana de Lima, MHA, Executive Director of IAHPC |
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Please make a note if there are any follow up actions we need to talk with the member of congress : |
For improving Palliative Care in our country contact with key international persons in this field would be critical. I strongly suggest Liliana de Lima, MHA, Executive Director od IAHPC. Countries like Malaysia are culturally similar to Iran and taking help for better adopting palliative care would be very important. I suggest Dr Ednin Hamzah from Malaysia for this purpose. Education of palliative medicine is very important part of improving palliative care in each countries. With receiving help from countries and specialists that have a long history in educationg palliative care such as Australia we can move faster. Associate Professor Meera Agar from Australia is one of the key persons in education and research in palliative medicine that can be helpful. |
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Your experiences about the travel processes(Providing ticket, accommodation,...) : |
Because of our currency devaluation affording ticket, accommodation and registration fees and buying books is difficult and support by the university for attending these sort of congresses is very important. |
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Meeting summary:(include: names of every one in attendance, outcomees and personal observatons of the metting, and please make a note if there are any follow up actions we need to take with the member of congress or their staff): : |
EAPC congress is one of the important congresses in Palliative Care and each year lots of countries participate in it. The congress was very well organized and surprisingly I noticed that they avoid unnecessary costs for example gifts or luxury meals.
As I mentioned before for improving palliative medicine as a new field of medicine close contact with international key persons would be important. We can use other countries experiences for developing palliative care in our countries. We are especially very weak in community care services that are an important part of palliative care services in developing and developed countries.
We need palliative care teams for looking after patients with life threatening diseases in the Emergency Departments and also ICUs. |